Right about compacting. Here is a neat program that is FREE lol and also strips attachments from a group of emails like you do and then will put the attachments into a folder you can then move to the correct folder. Very easy to use. www.miken.com/uud UUDeview-32 Barbara To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk